(FILES) Barcelona's football star Lionel Messi (L), his father Jorge Horacio Messi (backC) and his brother Rodrigo Messi (R) arrive at the courthouse on June 2, 2016 in Barcelona, where Messi and his father are to face judges in a tax fraud case. Jorge Messi, the father and agent of global football star Lionel Messi, has died aged 68 in Rosario, his hometown north of Buenos Aires, Newell's Old Boys the club where the Argentine captain played as a child announced on aUGUST 8, 2026. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP via Getty Images)